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New Rationality 42 karma levc Jul 17, 2026 If you look at the social landscape of San Francisco, you will notice a lot fewer rationalists now compared to a few years ago [1] . The reason for that is that rationalists — at least in my circles — have bullied each other out of existence. A lot of people who went to the rationalist camps started identifying as post-rationalists, also known as postrats. The same people started trolling the rationalists for being rationalist, leading to more and more people becoming postrats [2] . A similar process occurred in the Effective Altruism community, to th

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